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I loved The Stranger too! I also got to see a very interesting one-man dramatisation of it, delivered as a monologue, and it was very compelling in that context too! Camus' prose is very strong imo.

Fun fact about the trial tho (which is what got me writing the reply in the first place), the last execution by guillotine in France happened in 1977, about a month before Star Wars released.

As to why they were talking about his mother and painting him as aloof, I have it in my head that it was because he never tries to deny his guilt - so the prosecution can go after him as this cold, unfeeling killer on character grounds. But for the reader it's also a nice chance to tie back into the novel's beginning, focus on Mersault's disconnection from... well, kinda everything that we'd traditionally consider meaningful in the world, and set up for his confrontation with the Chaplain at the end!

The Stranger by Albert Camus

I really really like this book acctually, another one of those reads that I finished all in one day and it was just so fun to read honestly.

I'll be completely honest and say that I didn't know what was going on some of the time and don't even ask me about what the point was or what the themes are (I have research to do) but I really enjoyed it.

The main character's personality cracked me up at times and some of the philosophical ideas presented really resonated with me but if I had to explain them I probably couldn't 😭😭

But the very end SPOILERSSS got me so mad, I was so confused as to why on earth they kept yapping on about his mother, literally in that entire trial it was just them painting him as this aloof, unfeeling guy, which yea he is but what does this have to do with the murder???

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ALSO This is just me being dumb but I was gobsmacked that he was sentenced to the freaking guillotine?? What?! I expected him to like go to jail or something not to be bloody executed via guillotine 😭😭😭 I lit had to Google the time period for this book because in my mind guillotines are like a thing of the 1700s and 1800s...was shocked.

But yea I really liked this read and it was quite beginner friendly for people like myself 😼

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Another comic based on a favorite post of mine, because what can I say? I love posts

Original post by @cryptotheism

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"Why does the robot have boobs? Robots don't need boobs"

They're for gender euphoria. She has boobs cause she wanted them

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Ma'am, I think you'll find that my choice of ammunition makes perfect sense as human beings are "material".

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I don’t think there should be an upper limit to the size of toads

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me on the phone to yet another queer lit mag: why is everything about the moon with you people

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Finally some appropriate business formal atire for high powered executives like you and me.

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saw an image

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Forget the use of em-dashes, bold subheadings, or "testaments to", I think the phrase "more than just a" is probably the thing that raises my hackles the most whenever it comes to AI generated writing, if only because it's so obvious and so ubiquitous and so weird.

Local game store near me explains in three separate places on it's website how its "more than just a game store - it's a..." and it's at the point where as soon as I see the phrase I immediately know to stop reading.

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Janet Elizabeth Aulisio

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🩷 and 💚

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on being yourself

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A hunch is just an intuition but with rain and cigarettes.

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houseplant type friend

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by Nicholas Maxson-Francombe #1